On 10/7/2018 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> I've been experimenting with setup's support for the 'provides:' tag, and
> it's
> not behaving the way I expect [*]. I'm not sure if something in setup's
> interface with libsolv needs to be tweaked or if I'm just misunderstanding
> how
> this should
On 10/8/2018 11:05 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/8/2018 10:41 AM, cyg Simple wrote:
>> On 10/7/2018 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> I've been experimenting with setup's support for the 'provides:' tag, and
>>> it's
>>> not behaving the way I expect [*]. I'm not sure if something in setup's
>>>
On 10/7/2018 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> I've been experimenting with setup's support for the 'provides:' tag, and it's
> not behaving the way I expect [*]. I'm not sure if something in setup's
> interface with libsolv needs to be tweaked or if I'm just misunderstanding how
> this should work.
On 10/8/2018 4:04 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> I created a test repo with packages A, B, and C. I made A require foo (not a
>> package), and I made B and C provide foo. The attached script does all this
>> [**]. I then ran setup and selected A for installation.
>
> That really
On 10/8/2018 10:41 AM, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 10/7/2018 6:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I've been experimenting with setup's support for the 'provides:' tag, and
>> it's
>> not behaving the way I expect [*]. I'm not sure if something in setup's
>> interface with libsolv needs to be tweaked or if
On 10/8/2018 11:17 AM, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 10/8/2018 11:05 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> Here's an example (modeled on what Fedora does): Cygwin has four
>> packages that provide emacs binaries: emacs, emacs-X11, emacs-lucid, and
>> emacs-w32. Users can install any or all of these if they want to be
Ken Brown writes:
> I created a test repo with packages A, B, and C. I made A require foo (not a
> package), and I made B and C provide foo. The attached script does all this
> [**]. I then ran setup and selected A for installation.
That really only makes sense if several packages provide
